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  The Best New Books Coming Out in January

  Glamour - By Megan Angelo

  What does your body need to start 2015 right? A reasonable approach to your fitness resolutions, Danica's faultlessly logical cooking tips, and clean makeup brushes. What does your brain need? A great January read to bust you out of the holiday TV special brain-melt and keep you satisfied on the …

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  How Bill Gates Thinks

  The Atlantic - By Rose Eveleth

  Author Steven Johnson talks to the engineer turned philanthropist about the future, technology, ice, capitalism, and optimism. When interesting people hang out, interesting things tend to happen. So when we found out that Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From and The Ghost Map was going …

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  Warren Buffett's 'Two-List' Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities

  huffingtonpost.com - James Clear

  With well over 50 billion dollars to his name, Warren Buffett is consistently ranked among the wealthiest people in the world. Out of all the …

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  Cancer-killing stem cells engineered in lab

  bbc.co.uk - BBC News

  Scientists from Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of turning stem cells into killing machines to fight brain cancer. In experiments on mice, the stem cells were genetically engineered to produce and secrete toxins which kill brain tumours, without killing normal cells or …

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  Jul 3, 2014
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  First Embryonic Stem Cells Cloned From A Man's Skin

  NPR - Richard Harris

  Eighteen years ago, scientists in Scotland took the nuclear DNA from the cell of an adult sheep and put it into another sheep's egg cell that had been emptied of its own nucleus. The resulting egg was implanted in the womb of a third sheep, and the result was Dolly, the first clone of a …